New York City in 1986 and there was an explosion of a new kind of music called Hip Hop

It was a good time to be a rap fan in New York. The mid-80s brought a series of rap classics: LL Cool J’s Radio (1985), Run-D.M.C.’s Raising Hell (1986), the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill (1986), the Fat Boys'The Fat Boys are Back (1985), and Whodini’s Back in Black (1986).